James Cobb has been to the brink and back. In a matter of weeks, he went from earning $4 an hour washing cars in rural Alabama to making a quarter million dollars smuggling Moroccan hashish on the beaches of Spain with his estranged biological father, a man described as "one of the biggest players in the world of drug smuggling." From the extravagance of Acapulco and the 'Valley of Death' on the US border, to deadly work in the heat of southern Spain, and a desperate chase through the Louisiana swamps, Jamie's life takes a grave turn where there can be only one outcome...